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This chapter reports on the mathematical training of operators in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in Australia. Based on an analysis of workplace observations, the pedagogic design of the training addresses tensions and contradictions between the mathematically informed workplace practices of the operators and their formal mathematical competences. A Bernsteinian approach is used in this chapter to discuss issues of enhancement at the individual level and of social, intellectual, cultural, and personal inclusion.
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This paper is written as part of the Adults’ Mathematics: In Work and for School research project awarded to Tine Wedege and led by Lisa Björklund Boistrup supported by the Swedish Research Council, 2011–2014.
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FitzSimons, G.E. (2015). Learning Mathematics In and Out of School: A Workplace Education Perspective. In: Gellert, U., Giménez RodrÃguez, J., Hahn, C., Kafoussi, S. (eds) Educational Paths to Mathematics. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15410-7_5
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